Los Angeles Plays Itself

This is a sweeping documentary essay about Los Angeles, the most photographed city in the world, a bastion of American movie culture and a place whose diverse cultural, architectural and social microcosm lends itself richly to a 170-minute documentary movie that never stops for breath. Told through a variety of movie clips and Thom Andersen's subjective monologue, the narrative will captivate you, whatever your opinion of Los Angeles is, or even if perhaps you hold no opinion at all. It is a movie about the city, about the people, about the movies made there, it is about everything. (04/06/2021)